Eleanor Raymond (1888-1989)

Name

Raymond, Eleanor

Personal Information

Birth/Death:    1888-1989
Gender:    Female
Occupation:    American architect
Location (state):    MA

AIA Affiliation

Member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) 1924-decease
Fellow of the American Institute of Architects (FAIA) 1961

Biographical Sources

American Architects Directories:
Biographical listing in 1956 American Architects Directory
Biographical listing in 1962 American Architects Directory
Biographical listing in 1970 American Architects Directory
Biographical Directories:
Entry in Sarah Allaback, The First American Women Architects (University of Illinois Press, 2008)
Biographical information:
Contributed by Special Collections, Frances Loeb Library, Harvard Graduate School of Design: Eleanor Raymond was born in Cambridge, MA, and following her graduation from Wellesley College, enrolled in the Cambridge School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (whose faculty was largely drawn from the faculty of Harvard's School of Architecture). Upon her graduation in 1919, Raymond opened an office in partnership with Henry Atherton Frost: the beginning of a professional career that was to span some sixty years of practice. Raymond's prime interest was in residential housing: she designed one of the first International Style houses in the United States in 1931, was deeply interested in innovative materials and building systems (she designed a Plywood House in 1940 and in 1948, the "Sun House," one of the first successful solar-heated buildings in the Northeast). Eleanor Raymond was elected a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects in 1961.

Related Records

Eleanor Raymond (firm)

Archival Holdings

The American Institute of Architects Archives
      Membership file may contain membership application, Fellowship nomination, related correspondence. Contact the AIA Archives at archives@aia.org for further information.
Special Collections, Frances Loeb Library, Harvard Graduate School of Design
https://guides.library.harvard.edu/gsd/archives
The Eleanor Raymond Collection
The Eleanor Raymond Collection includes documentation of some 300 architectural projects, ranging from drawings to related correspondence, as well as project photographs, personal papers, snapshots, and memorabilia. Also included are diaries kept by architectural journalist and writer, Ethel Power, Raymond's long-time companion and professional colleague.
Gift of Eleanor Raymond, 1986
Online finding aid available at nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:GSD.loeb:des00011

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